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MemConFuzz: Memory Consumption Guided Fuzzing with Data Flow Analysis

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  • Chunlai Du

    (School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China)

  • Zhijian Cui

    (School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China)

  • Yanhui Guo

    (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, IL 62703, USA)

  • Guizhi Xu

    (School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China)

  • Zhongru Wang

    (School of Information Science and Technology, North China University of Technology, Beijing 100144, China
    Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies, Beijing 100048, China)

Abstract

Uncontrolled heap memory consumption, a kind of critical software vulnerability, is utilized by attackers to consume a large amount of heap memory and consequently trigger crashes. There have been few works on the vulnerability fuzzing of heap consumption. Most of them, such as MemLock and PerfFuzz, have failed to consider the influence of data flow. We proposed a heap memory consumption guided fuzzing model named MemConFuzz. It extracts the locations of heap operations and data-dependent functions through static data flow analysis. Based on the data dependency, we proposed a seed selection algorithm in fuzzing to assign more energy to the samples with higher priority scores. The experiment results showed that the MemConFuzz has advantages over AFL, MemLock, and PerfFuzz with more quantity and less time consumption in exploiting the vulnerability of heap memory consumption.

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  • Chunlai Du & Zhijian Cui & Yanhui Guo & Guizhi Xu & Zhongru Wang, 2023. "MemConFuzz: Memory Consumption Guided Fuzzing with Data Flow Analysis," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(5), pages 1-19, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:11:y:2023:i:5:p:1222-:d:1085803
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